(Nfamous.net) Thor Review

Nfamous.net: I know that I had been hearing from as far back as when the announcement was made that some people, mainly fans of the comic book, were worried that Kenneth Branagh had been hired to helm the feature length film based on Marvel’s thunder god, Thor. People knew of his background doing Shakespearian films and other serious movies like Henry V, Hamlet, A Midwinter’s Tale and Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein – yet they questioned whether his brand of direction would translate well into a comic book adaptation. Sure, he was used to working with the dialect and vernacular that the characters in Thor would be using, but could he get the action and feel of the character or would he just go off on a different tangent and alienate the fans of the comic book. Well, I believe it is safe to say that all those fears and anxieties can be laid to rest as Thor is definitely one of the best comic book movies to hit the screen since Spider-Man 2.

I thought it was well written. As a long time reader of the comic book (20 plus years), I thought it blended in all the good aspects of the character. Plus, if you look at the character over the past 50 years, writers playing off the fact that he is not human or from Earth is a constant theme in the comic book.

Kenneth Branagh was the perfect choice as director for this film as he had experience with the type of dialog that was going to be used.